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Video: Trash vs. Treasure
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This video is about introducing elementary school-age children to recycling in Ohio’s Stark County.
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Video: Mucking Up the Silt
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This video shows efforts to prevent stormwater from polluting Meyers Lake and its outflows into the Nimishillen Creek in northeastern Ohio.
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Video: Farmers: Our Story
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An alternative lens on agriculture’s need for a healthy environment.
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Video: How to prevent sickness from blue-green algae blooms
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A Wisconsin agency recently released this video explaining how people and pets can avoid getting sick from blue-green algae. Blooms of blue-green algae are a health concern among inland lake beach-goers in the Great Lakes region. This summer’s record heat could increase the risk. “Reports of blue-green algae blooms in June and July were worse this year than they were last year,” said Emmy Wollenburg, outreach specialist at the Wisconsin Department of Health Services. August is usually the heaviest month for the algae, but the heat is making blooms pop up much earlier, Wollenburg said.
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Human “oil spill” protests pipeline expansion
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Investigators recently reported that Enbridge Inc. failed to adequately respond to a 2010 oil spill into Michigan’s Kalamazoo River. Activists at the state capitol protested the company’s plan to replace and expand the ruptured pipeline.
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Video: Tackling environmental education creatively
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What’s the best way to deliver environmental education?
Try getting students out of the classroom.
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VIDEO: Warm spring increases drowning risk
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With summer on the horizon, water safety folks discuss ways to stay safe while splashing.
Featured photo: UW Digital Collections
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VIDEO: Scientists examine the world’s freshwater lakes
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The Large Lakes Observatory is observing the Great Lakes to better understand threats to the world’s freshwater resources. Research teams are studying everything from climate change impacts on the lakes to nitrate build-ups. And it’s not just the Great Lakes. With support from the National Science Foundation, the observatory’s scientists are studying the biology, chemistry, physics and geology of large lakes around the world. The video below highlights some of their research in the Great Lakes.
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VIDEO: This talking goose loves a mowed lawn
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Have you ever wondered why geese flock to a nice clean lawn? Sebastian the goose explains the attraction. Sebastian loves short, tasty grass and feels safe when he can see predators from far away. That’s why he loves mowed lawns and shorelines. And this fowl admits to fouling a yard 28 times a day, generating almost 1.5 pounds of waste.